Situation
A client was struggling with how to determine inventory levels at all locations in their global distribution network and required business consultation for an electronic model to solve this problem from end-to-end in their supply chain
Goal
Create a multi-echelon, statistically sound inventory management model that:
Approach
Tefen built a value stream map of manufacturing & distribution network of current state so as to ensure model mirrors reality
Mapped out data sources and identified relevant databases and respective fields for model calculations
Data cleansing was essential to ensure data integrity and that assumptions were correctly identified, discusses, and documented
Finally built model from scratch for the specific network based on following guidelines:
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Process
Results